| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: mierkat thus exhibiting exactly those psychic qualities which are generally
regarded as peculiarly feminine; the females, on the other hand, being far
more pugnacious towards each other than are the males.
Among mammals generally, except the tendency to greater pugnacity shown by
the male towards other males, and the greater solicitude for the young
shown generally by the female form, but not always; the psychic differences
between the two sex forms are not great. Between the male and female
pointer as puppies, there is as little difference in mental activity as in
physical; and even when adult, on the hunting ground, that great non-sexual
field in which their highest mental and physical activities are displayed,
there is little or nothing which distinguishes materially between the male
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: over."
"Joe," replied Orde, "I--I don't think I'll stay down town this
morning. I--"
Newmark glanced up keenly.
"You don't look a bit well," said he; "kind of pale around the
gills. Bilious. Don't believe that camp grub quite agrees with you
for a steady diet."
"Yes, that must be it," assented Orde.
He closed his desk and went out. Newmark turned back to his papers.
His face was expressionless. From an inner pocket he produced a
cigar which he thrust between his teeth. The corners of his mouth
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pierre Grassou by Honore de Balzac: took Fougeres to the Opera. But Fougeres didn't see the ballet, didn't
hear the music; he was imagining pictures, he was painting. He left
Joseph in the middle of the evening, and ran home to make sketches by
lamp-light. He invented thirty pictures, all reminiscence, and felt
himself a man of genius. The next day he bought colors, and canvases
of various dimensions; he piled up bread and cheese on his table, he
filled a water-pot with water, he laid in a provision of wood for his
stove; then, to use a studio expression, he dug at his pictures. He
hired several models and Magus lent him stuffs.
After two months' seclusion the Breton had finished four pictures.
Again he asked counsel of Schinner, this time adding Bridau to the
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